With 135 works, the Khanh Hoa fine arts contest for children 2013 was a colorful playground for the children. The spontaneousness, cuteness and colorfulness shown in the pictures left a good impression on viewers.
With 135 works, the Khanh Hoa fine arts contest for children 2013 was a colorful playground for the children. The spontaneousness, cuteness and colorfulness shown in the pictures left a good impression on viewers.
With 44,181 works of 334 units, the Khanh Hoa fine arts contest for children 2013 saw a 20% increase in the numbers of entries compared to 2012. The organization board gave awards to 225 works and selected 135 ones to display at the Provincial Children’s House (62 Thai Nguyen Street, Nha Trang City).
Most of the pictures revolved the topics of landscape, Uncle Ho with children, daily activities, animals, etc. Many of them depicted the children' love for the soldiers on the Spratly Islands, the message about environmental protection and traffic safety.
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| Painting “River” of Le Thi Huyen Thu, pupil of Nguyen Van Troi Secondary School, Cam Ranh. |
With an abundance of materials (pastel, acrylic, crayon, etc), this year’s fine arts contest for children was considered as a colorful flower garden, arousing different feelings in the viewers.
The spontaneousness and cuteness in the paintings of nursery children and the pure emotion and the bright colors shown in the elementary school pupils’ paintings attracted both children and adults.
The annual fine arts contest for children shows the interest of Khanh Hoa Province in aesthetic education for children. The contest created a useful playground for the children who love fine arts in the province, partly raising their aesthetic thinking. The attractiveness of this contest was shown through the increasing of participants and entries in each year.
However, there were still some problems such as the interference of the adults in children’s paintings, the elements of propaganda and comics in many pictures.
According to painter Le Van Duy, the teachers should play a role in encouraging and suggesting the ideas for their pupils instead of interfering too much in the children’s creation. The children should be allowed to show their spontaneousness which will help them to develop the aesthetic thinking and personality, he added.
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